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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-06-17

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, 1887-08-24

Is a blessing for which thousands of our
dyspeptic countrymen and women sigh in
vain, and to obtain which swallow much
medicine unavailingly. For no ailment-
probably-are there SO many alleged rem
edies as for dyspepsia. The man of hum
bug is constantly glutted with the dollars
and dimes of those who resort to one
nostrum after another in the vain hope Of
obtaining relief, as least, from this vex-
atious an obstinate malady. Experience
indicates Hostetter's Stomach Bitters !
a means OF Graduating dyspepsia, in which
a firm reliance can be placed. No rem
edy has in three decades and v c estab-
lished such a reputation, none has re-
ceIved such unqualified professional
sanction. 1t is an admirable invigorant,
because it enriches the blood, and not
only this, but it thoroughly. regulates the
bowels. kidneys and bladder. The ner-
vous symptoms are usually relieved by
the medicine.
, 1887-08-24

SIT may seem a singular statement to
make, " said an optician, ''but it is true
that there is no need of anybody suffering
from strabismus, that is, being squirt
eyed. And it is also a fact that sduint
eyed people are comparatively rare nova
days, as compared with the time when 1
was a boy. You can go a score of blocks
now without meeting one, whereas 1 re-
member that l could not go a street dis
lance to school without encountering
half a dozen crooked eyed children. The
reason is that people have come to the
conclusion that it can be cured, and they
take the steps to be cured"
"Is there not some danger of losing
their eyesight in the operation?"
every little; not over one chance in a
hundred in the hands of a proper oper-
ator."
"But are not the charges for such OPP
erations very high?' asked the reporter.
cat the Polytechnic and some other in
situations, those who are without means
are treated for nothing, and even outside
of the institutions a great deal more of
gratuitous work is lone than oculists get
credit or."-New York Sun.
, 1887-08-24

For many years L have worn India rub
Der waterproofs, but will have no more,
for l have learned that good Scotch
tweed a be made entirely impervious
to rain; and moreover, 1 have learned
how to make it SO, and the following is
the recipe: In a bucket of water put half
pound of sugar Of lead and a half a pound
of powdered alum; stir this at intervals
until it becomes clear, pour it off into
another bucket and put the garment
therein, and let it be there for twenty
four hours and then hang it up to dry,
without wringing it. Two of my party,
q lady and gentleman, nave worn gar
ments thus treated in the widest storms
Of wind and rain, without getting wet.
The rain hangs upon the cloth in globules.
In short, they are really waterproof. The
gentleman a fortnight ago walked nine
miles in a storm of rain and wind, such
as you seldom see in the south, and when
he slipped off his overcoat his underwear
was as dry as when he put it on.-English
Paper.
, 1887-08-24
THE ANIMALS AT DINNER.
Statistics That Tell IA Queer Story of the
Poor Stomach's Abuse.

Statistics That Tell n Queer Story of the
Poor Stomach's Abuse.
The observer of the animal human at
its dinner in a public restaurant has a
world of sarcastic enjoyment opened to
him that he will not forsake. 1t is there
that the somnolent porker finds himself
]eutrivaled by beasts on two legs. To
look at the subject of table manners at a
public trough in a mathematical way is
something unusual, but the experiment
has been tried and the results presented
with the firm conviction that they sup
port Mr.. Dickens and several other de
ceased foreign gentlemen in some of their
pct theories. 1t has been found neces-
-irF to use assumed names, but that can
not detract from the interest of the statis-
tics. They were obtained by a scientific
Gentleman at a first class trough, where
from 200 to SEQ persons are fed every
day, and furnished to the st. Paul
Pioneer-Press
Miss Juniper, pale and dyspeptic, or
dered roast beef, potatoes, corn, peas, cof-
fee and bread and butter. Began eating
at 1909, finished 1919; time consumed,
ten minutes.
Miss Airy, weight probably 100
pounds, short and sallow, ordered tea
and a ham sandwich. Began at 1890,
finished 1894; time, four minutes.
John July, clerk, suffers from bilious
ness. Ordered porterhouse steak, eggs,
cabbage, beans, coffee, pie. Commenced
1915, finished 1929; time, seven min
utes.
Jones Jonesby, gentleman, apoplec-
tic, ordered corn beef and cabbage, pota-
toes, beer, Strawberries and custard.
Began 12:40. finished 1915; time, five
Minutes
No sane man would believe these sta
tistics if he could not be assured that the
writer had timed the individuals named,
and that the records given are free from
all eXaggeration. There are four persons,
all living sedentary lives, and having at
each division of the day one hour for
meals. They came to them faint and
worn out. Their stomachs, naturally
made delicate by years of wanton abuse,
crave light food, slow eating and easy
digestion. Do they get it? Imagine the
horror of any well regulated and ten
derby cared for stomach at having fired
into il at the speed of n cannon ball such
n mess as Jones Joneby devoured in five
minutes-corned beef, cabbage, potatoes,
beer, Strawberries, custard. Then think
of the agony of a sensitive, aching stom-
ach at receiving such a shake and mix
load as that. But if you are a doubter
and refuse to believe that people can and
do eat messes of that quantity in less
time than you, who consider an hour
short for your luncheon, go into any
large restaurant at tie noon hour, take
out your watch and time the patrons.
Then you will be converted. Clerks
complain of dyspepsia, women of head
aches, bachelors of biliousness, and n
thousand others of no appetite. What is
the cause1 They are ''bolters." They
belong to that great family whose motto,
displayed in all dining halls, is "Store
your food down. Herald of Health.
, 1887-08-24

a curious "Reminiscences of Boston in
the olden times is related by an old citi-
zen. Mr.. w., n wealthy merchant
III the Calcutta trade, who at his death
left millions for his heirs, having some
business of Importance in New York..
visited that city in the company of his
son, who, unlike his father, had an in
clinatiOn TO see the sights of the great
city. They stopped at the Astor house,
then recently built. Everything was
new TO the old man, who after supper
parted with his son with the paternal in
junction that they were to meet at 0
o'clock p. m. P%unctually at that hour
the old Mr.. W repaired to the office,
and in his simplicity inquired, HAS my
son Thomas arrived2" The clerk re-
Piled, "Who is your son Thomas?''
why" said the old man, Thomas
W, of Boston," mot in said the
clerk a half hour elapsed, and the old
man, getting anxious, again approached
the counter and inquired of another
clerk, HAS my son Thomas appeared?"
"Who is your son?' inquired the new
clerk. why, Thomas W., of Bos-
ton, answered the old man. mot in, +"
said the clerk. AT 10 O'Clock the tired
and weary old man again made the same
inquiry of another clerk, with the same
result. "Well," said the old gentleman,
you can shut up your house; you
needn't wait for him any longer. III go
TO bed, y and up stairs he toddled .-Bos-
ton Budget ''Saunterer."
, 1887-08-24

I was a spectator of an incident which
illustrated the association of ideas, and
perhaps some other things. l came upon
a group whose attitude expressed a panied
and puzzled interest. The center figures
were two very young children holding
each other by the hand, N sobbing, the
other keeping back the tears. About them
were kindly intentioned women plying
the little things with questions and re-
ceiving answers altogether unsatisfactory
when not unint0lligible. The children
had wandered from home, and either
from confusion or because they could not
speak plainly it was impossible to learn
from them where they lived. The mothers
in the group tried baby talk with no sue
cess. and 1 was about TO venture an ex-
pertinent of my own when up stepped a
school girl of 10 years with "Lemme
try" Bending over the bigger of the
little ones, she asked: 'sWhero do you
buy your candy?" Intelligence and speech
awoke together in the scared little brain
that had been proof to cajolery and
anxiety, and quick the answer came:
"At Smithses." The link connecting the
runaways with home had been found,
and the discoverer marched off leading
them in triumph.-Boston Post.
, 1887-08-24

1t seems to us a reproach to IL Amer
lean medical colleges that so few of them
make even the p~retense of teaching bot
any. a fair knowledge of the natural
sciences ought, of course, to have been
acquired during that portion of n young
mans education that precedes his ma
circulation in medicine, but the fact is
notorious that few Of the institutions in
which he can pursue that part of his
study make any considerable approach
to adequate teaching in this branch. The
medical school of the period we consider
quite rs much bound to supplement its
pupils defective opportunities in botany
as in chemistry-a branch that 10 medi-
cal faculty could afford to ignore. Even
in countries where this particular def
cheney in the students preliminary edu-
cation is by no means so decided, if in
deed it exists at all, botany is taught sys-
tematically and practically. In France,
for example, there are frequent herbori-
s%ations. conducted by men of world wide
fame and duly announced in the medical
jOurnals.-New York Medical Journal.
, 1887-08-24


1t happens never mind how that / am
in a position to have a pretty good
knowledge of tenement life in New York.
1t relates to the worst tenements as well
as to the best, and it has extended over a
number of years. Speaking practically,
then, and from my own observation, 1
say that the death rate in the tenements,
all things considered, is singularly low.
When the health authorities talk about it
they lay special stress on the high NOR
tality among children. l wonder if it
e occurred to these wise men that
there is another reason than theirs why
the proportion of deaths as between chill
dren and adults is SO much higher in the
tenements than in private houses? What
is it, this other reason? Why, simply
that the proportion of children to parents
is much larger in the tenements than else
where.
Childless couples are never found, or
hardly ever found, among the poor in the
tenements. You find them by the dozen,
by the score, the hundred, in the higher
circles. Among the well to do people
who have some children the number is
usually small-frequently, say, two or
three, often only one or two. But not SO
in the tenements, where it is hand to
mouth all the year round. Children
swarm there; you stumble over them at
every turn. They are in the yards, on
the sidewalks, in the halls, OF the stairs,
in the rooms. The workingman and his
wife may find the shoe pinching very
often, but the family increases all the
same. Not to follow this matter any
further, though there is much in it for
reflection, l repeat that a strong and OBJ
vious reason, never mentioned by the
health authorities, for high mortality
among children in the tenements is the
fact that children are relatively much
more numerous there than anywhere
else. And the real wonder is that so
many of them not only pull through the
perils of childhood, but become as vigor-
ous men and women as those who grow
up in brown stone fronts-often, in fact,
a great deal more vigorous. New York
Cor. Detroit Free Press.
, 1887-08-24

That is to say, your lungs. Also all
your breathing machinery. Very wonder
full machinery it is. Not only the larger
air passages, but the thousands of little
tubes and cavities leading from them.
When these are clogged and choked
with matter which ought not to be there,
your lungs cannot do half their work.
And what they do, they cannot do well
Call it cold, cough, Group. Pneumonia,
catarrh, consumption, or any of the fam
lily of throat and nose and head and lung
distractions, all are bad. All ought to
be got rid OF. There is Just one sure way
to get rid of them. That is to take
Boschee's German Syrup, which any
druggist will sell you at rs cents a bottle.
Even if everything else has failed you
you may depend upon this for certain.
, 1887-08-24
HOW NORMAN BREAD is MADE.
Tread, Cheese and Cider Essentials OF
French Peasant Hospitality.

Tread, Cheese and Cider Essentials OF
French Peasant Hospitality.
N summers day we stopped to call
mt the stone farm house of Monsieur
Duval. Ernestine, the eldest dau liter,
was ho~usekeeper in her dead mothers
plac2, and she it was who brought out the
amber colored cider, the goats cheese and
the heavy, hard country bread. 1t is an
essential of French peasant hospitality TO
offer these things to visitors.
The o a she took from the shelf was
one Of a half dozen others leaning against
the black wall. These loaves resemblcd
cart wheels, and had been baked in six
quart milk pans. Ernestine cut the loaf
with a small saw made for the puTpOse.
Nothing less thar such a saw or a pirates
cutlass could sever that homely, but
wholesome pain rassis.
These ~loaves, we knew, were baked
only once u month. Bread day in a Nor
man peasant family is like washing day
on an American farm, in the respect that
it comes at regular periods. We judged
that bread day in this cottage was APP
preaching from the fact that only six
loaves remained of the original thirty, or
thereabouts.
After our little lunch, Ernestine took
us through the orchard to a picturesque
stone building, where the bread wa
made. This building had once been part
Of an ancient abbey, and amid its ivy
covered ruins we could still trace fine
sculpture and bits of armorial designs,
but inside there was no trace of art or
architecture. 1t was really a Norman
hen house. We saw several pairs of sabots
or wooden shoes hanging front the wall
and looking as if they had been white
washed.
In one corner of the place was a large
space inclosed with boards. This was
empty, but, like the sabots, it suggested
whitewash or mortar making.
Ernestine told us that this was the
family dough trough. Here, once a
month, came her father and the hired
man to set the yeast rising. Flour
and water were stirred together with the
huge wooden spades ike snow shovels,
which hung with the sabots upon the
wall. When the mass, thoroughly beat
en- together, had risen and assumed a
dark leathery consistency, then came the
tug of war. The two men put the sa-
bots on outside their ordinary shoes,
jumped in upon the dough and com
menced the kneading. The way they
did it was to jump and prance and flour
ish like opera dancers; to stamp and
kick like horses, to exercise themselves
till the perspiration streamed off them
and they had no strength left!
After this process the dough was put
into the pans. and then baked in the
huge oven at the rear of the abbatial
hen house!-Cor. Epoch.
, 1887-08-24
Our oountry,s Dairy Interests.

Our American dairy interests are
startlingly enormous. They represent
an investment of nearly five times as
much as the entire bank capital of the
country; that is to say, the bank capital
is a little less than $671, 900, 900, while
the dairy interests amount to more than
So, 900, 900, 900. The number of milk
COWS is estimated at 81, 900, 900. They
give each an average of $50 gallons of
milk annually. This would make an
aggregate milk production of 1850, OOO,-
600 gallons, n miniature ocean, a fair
sized Niagara. Four thousand million
gallons are used for butter, 700, 600, 900
for cheese and the remaining 2,4S0, 000,-
900 pass through the adulterating hands
of the milkman and grocer and down the
Threats of 60, 900, 900 men, women and
babies in this land of freedom. The guam
tity of butter manufactured and used is
about 1850, 900, 900 pounds and of cheese
$500, 900 pounds. The value of our
dairy products for the last twelve months
was nearly $500, 900, 900. This is $780,
900, 900 more than the value of our an
nual wheat yield, while it closely ap-
proximates that of our corn crop, which
is the most valuable of our farm products.
To support this immense dairy herd 100,-
900, 600 acres Of pasture land are re-
quired, worth So, 500. 900 900. 1t is easy
enough to see, therefore, that the 4 ,00O,-
900 farmers in this country are an i'm
portant element of our national welfare
and prosperity.-New York Herald.
, 1887-08-24

The Ostjaks are not yet generally sup
piled with firearms, but continue to shoot
squirrels with a blunt arrow, taking care
to hit the animal on the head, 30 as not to
damage the fur. Their bows are six feet
long, made of a slip of birch joined by fish
glue to a piece of hard pine wood The
arrows are four feet long, the mead CON
sisting of either a ball for striking small
fur animals or a spear like weapon for
larger game. 1 heard on the Obi of feats
of archery which far Guido the traditional
shot of William Tell. The captain told a
fellow passenger that on one occasion he
saw an Ostjak mark an arrow in the mid
die with a piece of charcoal and discharge
it in the air, while a second man, before it
reached the ground, shot at the descend
ing shaft and struck it on the mark
Harper's Magazine.
, 1887-08-24
Always Carry Small Change.

Keep yourself well provided with
small coin" Every guide book pub
IIshcI give this advice to tourists visiting
foreign countries, in substance if not in
the very wn,d5. To many it is about
the best hint ono can get from a guide
book and worth needing not only abroad,
but ut home. Abroad considerable sums
are squandered in tips and in other ways,
because travellers are ignorant of the fact
that in nine cases ont of ten two or three
coppers are quite as weighty as a silver
piece. Many persons continue to throw
money away wen after they awake to
this fact, by neglecting to keep n supply
of small coin on hand. They meet the
necessity for bestowing upon a servant, a
porter or q coachman a gratuity, and are
forced to part with a silver piece.-New
York Mail and Express.
, 1887-08-24

Although paper glass windows may
seem to be q contradiction in terms, says
an exchange, they are really an accom-
plished fact. A window pane is made
Of white paper, manufactured from cot
tor OF linen, and modified by chemical
action. Afterward the paper is dipped
in a preparation of camphor and alcohol,
which makes it like parchment. From
this point 1t can be nodded and cut into
remarkably tough sheets entirely trans
parent, and it can be dyed with almost
the whole of the aniline colors, the result
being Il transparent sheet, showing far
more vivid hues than the best glass ex-
hibits. Boston Budget.
, 1887-08-24
Demons of the Wood.

From the Tyrol, from Switzerland,
from Germany or from Brittany, come
well ascertained accounts of the popular
belief in certain wild spirits of the wood,
who are painted in all the most frightful
shapes the imagination can suggest, and
are characterized by their delight in every
possible form of malevolence. They kid
nap and devour children, bewitch the
Sattle and lead men to lose their way in
b forest. They can assume any size,
from the diminutive to the most gigantic;
nor is any form of bird or beast an i'm
possible ~personation of them. The Skong-
man, the forest spirit of Sweden, is like
a man, but tall as the highest tree; he
decoys men into the wood, and when
they nave hopelessly lost their way, and
begin to weep for fear, leaves them
with mocking laughter. The conception
ID well nigh identical with that found
among the natives of the forests of Bra
zil, showing with what uniformity SINH
lar conditions produce similar effects
upon the human mind. But the Russian
spirits Ljesch from a Polish word for
wood are even more significant; for not
only are the usual diabolical attributaries
assigned to them, such as the leading of
men astray or the sending to them of
sickness, but also the conventional dia-
boical features. Their bodies are after
the human pattern, but they lave the
ears and horns of goats, their feet are
cloven and their fingers end in claws.
The Russian wood spirit is, in fact, the
devil of medieval imagination and moth
ing else, a fact which strongly supports
the inference that it is from the wood
and from the wing rustling over the tree
tops that the idea of the supernatural
agency of devils first took possession of
the imagination of mankind.
1t is in no way inconsistent with this
theory that besides devils of the forest
there are those of the air or the water.
The conception is one which would nave
met with no barrier to the extension of
its dominions, and the devil of the tree or
forest would from the first be closely
associated with, if at all distinguished
from, the spirit that moved in the trees
and was powerful enough to overturn
them. In this way the wild spirits of the
woods would pass insensibly into those
spirits of the air which our ancestors
identified with the Wild Huntsman, and
which English peasants still often heal
when they listen to the passage of the
Seven Whistlers. IGentleman's Maya
zine.
, 1887-08-24

Blu what really is needed in all classes
of society is a just hostility toward those
debased human traits that are manifest in
the individual, whether rich or poor, in
applying a pound or a penny, and which
are hateful because they are selfish, de-
bssing, and heartless. When we would
identify the ills of life with a class; when
we misinterpret 1.-The sheep and the goats
as referring to good and bad people, who
are to be separated at the end of the har-
vest, instead of the good and the bad in
each one of us, the wheat and the tares
in each individual soul, her we are in
darkness and there is no reason, or cour-
tesy, or judgment at the root of such es-
Inmates or hostilities. John +. WIer in
Scribner.
, 1887-08-24

Many of the Baluba are adopting the
dress of the whites and are f~ashioning
their buildings on the model of those at
Luluaburg Station. DIR. Wolf says they
possess qualities that render them adept
pupils in learning the arts of civilization.
1t is these people who decided a few
years ago that drunkenness was a crime
and a disgrace, and who at once adopted
the most energetic prohibitory measures.
The stimulant used by the bibulous men,
bers of the tribe was palm wine. The
tribe attacked the evil at its roots by cut
ting down all the palm trees in the coun-
try, and the Baluba are today remark
able for their temperate habits.-New
York Sun.
, 1887-08-24

1t is all too common to misunderstood
the true nature of a medicine, as any one
must confess, remembering the story of
the nurse who awoke her patient in order
to administer a sleeping potion.
When shower baths became an active
fashion, a certain physician one day met
a neiGhbor, and inquired, "'Well, jack
son, how did your wife manage her new
shower bath?''
''Oh, she had real good luck. Mrs.
Smith told her how she managed with
hern. She made an oiled silk hood, with
a big cape to it, that came down over her
shoulders"
''She. was a fool for her palms." said
the doctor, impatiently. ''That's not the
way"
$50 my wife thought"
And your wife did nothing of the
kind, l hope"
"Oh no, no. My wife she used an
umbrelly youths Companion.
, 1887-08-24
EDW. HOFFMAN,,
North Attleboro, Mass.

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